Okla. Fight Over Poultry Waste Escalates
March 3rd, 2008 By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press Writer(AP) -- In a region that produces billions of pounds of the nation's poultry, part of doing business for the past half-century was trying to ignore the smelly waste dropped by the birds.
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moebiex - Mar 05, 2008
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345 Kilotons of bird manure and the price of natural gas at what- $9 per mill cu ft. Mix the manure with a bit of high carbon material, digest in a high capacity high temperature anaerobic unit, clean the gas, capture the methane (= natural gas), nitrogen,sul;phur and CO2 and reduce the volume of the cellular componant (as opposed to the increase seen with composting)and still be left with lots of cured fertilizer. Why can't today's engineering, energy and farming communities see that this would be a BIG win-win-win solution. As an E production option in and of itself it may be 'marginal' but when combined with the other benefits- especially reduced pollution and neighborly conflict- in a sort of co-gen calculation, its got to make a lot of sense.- flag
